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- DirectorMel GibsonStarsMel GibsonSophie MarceauPatrick McGoohanScottish warrior William Wallace leads his countrymen in a rebellion to free his homeland from the tyranny of King Edward I of England.Best Picture, Best Director, Best Sound Editing, Best Cinematography & Best Makeup. Also nominated for original screenplay, dramatic score, sound, costume design & editing
- DirectorRon HowardStarsTom HanksBill PaxtonKevin BaconNASA must devise a strategy to return Apollo 13 to Earth safely after the spacecraft undergoes massive internal damage putting the lives of the three astronauts on board in jeopardy.Best Picture nominee, Best Sound & Best Editing. also nominated for supporting actor, supporting actress, adapted screenplay, dramatic score, art direction & visual effects.
- DirectorChris NoonanStarsJames CromwellMagda SzubanskiChristine CavanaughGentle farmer Arthur Hoggett wins a piglet Babe at a county fair. Narrowly escaping his fate as Christmas dinner, Babe bonds with motherly border collie Fly and discovers that he too can herd sheep. But will the other animals accept him?Best Picture nominee & Best Visual Effects. Also nominated for director, supporting actor, adapted screenplay, art direction & film editing.
- DirectorMichael RadfordMassimo TroisiStarsMassimo TroisiPhilippe NoiretMaria Grazia CucinottaA simple Italian postman learns to love poetry while delivering mail to a famous poet, and then uses this to woo local beauty Beatrice.Best Picture nominee & Best Dramatic Score. Also nominated for director, lead actor & adapted screenplay
- DirectorAng LeeStarsEmma ThompsonKate WinsletJames FleetRich Mr. Dashwood dies, leaving his second wife and her three daughters poor by the rules of inheritance. The two eldest daughters are the title opposites.Best Picture nominee & Best Adapted Screenplay. Also nominated for lead actress, supporting actress, dramatic score, cinematography & costume design
- DirectorTim RobbinsStarsSusan SarandonSean PennRobert ProskyA nun, while comforting a convicted killer on death row, empathizes with both the killer and his victim's families.Best Lead Actress. Also nominated for directing, lead actor & original song
- DirectorMike FiggisStarsNicolas CageElisabeth ShueJulian SandsBen Sanderson, a Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his alcoholism, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-interference pact with prostitute Sera.Best Lead Actor. Also nominated for directing, lead actress & adapted screenplay.
- DirectorBryan SingerStarsKevin SpaceyGabriel ByrneChazz PalminteriThe sole survivor of a pier shoot-out tells the story of how a notorious criminal influenced the events that began with five criminals meeting in a seemingly random police lineup.Best Original Screenplay & Best Supporting Actor.
- DirectorWoody AllenStarsWoody AllenMira SorvinoPamela BlairWhen he discovers his adopted son is a genius, a New York sportswriter seeks out the boy's birth mother: a ditzy porn star and prostitute.Best Supporting Actress. Also nominated for original screenplay
- DirectorOliver StoneStarsAnthony HopkinsJoan AllenPowers BootheA biographical story of former U.S. President Richard Nixon, from his days as a young boy, to his eventual Presidency, which ended in shame.nominated for lead actor, supporting actress, original screenplay & dramatic score
- DirectorJohn LasseterStarsTom HanksTim AllenDon RicklesA cowboy doll is profoundly threatened and jealous when a new spaceman action figure supplants him as top toy in a boy's bedroom.nominated for best original screenplay, musical or comedy score & original song. Also received a special achievement award.
- DirectorStephen HerekStarsRichard DreyfussGlenne HeadlyJay ThomasA frustrated composer finds fulfillment as a high school music teacher.nominated for lead actor
- DirectorMartin ScorseseStarsRobert De NiroSharon StoneJoe PesciIn Las Vegas, two best friends - a casino executive and a mafia enforcer - compete for a gambling empire and a fast-living, fast-loving socialite.nominated for lead actress
- DirectorClint EastwoodStarsClint EastwoodMeryl StreepAnnie CorleyPhotographer Robert Kincaid wanders into the life of housewife Francesca Johnson for four days in the 1960s.nominated for lead actress
- DirectorTerry GilliamStarsBruce WillisMadeleine StoweBrad PittIn a future world devastated by disease, a convict is sent back in time to gather information about the man-made virus that wiped out most of the human population on the planet.nominated for supporting actor & costume design
- DirectorMichael Caton-JonesStarsLiam NeesonJessica LangeJohn HurtIn 1713 Scotland, Rob Roy MacGregor is wronged by a nobleman and his nephew, becomes an outlaw in search of revenge while fleeing the Redcoats, and faces charges of being a Jacobite.nominated for supporting actor
- DirectorUlu GrosbardStarsJennifer Jason LeighMare WinninghamTed LevineSadie is desperately looking up to her older sister Georgia who is a famous C&W artist. Her desperate need to be accepted by her sister is constantly complicated by her drug and alcohol problems.nominated for supporting actress
- DirectorAlfonso CuarónStarsLiesel MatthewsEleanor BronLiam CunninghamSara is sent to a strict boarding school after her father enlists in WWI. When he is presumed dead, the headmistress, knowing she will not receive any more money, forces the girl to become a servant.nominated for art direction & cinematography
- DirectorRichard LoncraineStarsIan McKellenAnnette BeningChristopher BowenThe classic Shakespearean play about the murderously scheming 15th-century king is reimagined in an alternative setting of 1930s England as clouds of fascism gather.nominated for art direction & costume design
- DirectorJoel SchumacherStarsVal KilmerTommy Lee JonesJim CarreyBatman must battle former district attorney Harvey Dent, who is now Two-Face and Edward Nygma, The Riddler with help from an amorous psychologist and a young circus acrobat who becomes his sidekick, Robin.nominated for cinematography, sound & sound effects editing.
- DirectorYimou ZhangStarsGong LiBaotian LiXiaoxiao WangA provincial boy related to a Shanghai crime family is recruited by his uncle into cosmopolitan Shanghai in the 1930s to be a servant to a ganglord's mistress.nominated for cinematography
- DirectorGregory NavaStarsJimmy SmitsEsai MoralesEdward James OlmosA man makes his way from Mexico to Los Angeles in the 1920s and gets married and raises a big family there. The movie follows the children until they get married and start their families in the 1960s.nominated for makeup
- DirectorPeter YatesStarsPeter FalkD.B. SweeneyJulianne MooreAn elderly yet young-at-heart man moves in with his grandson and both their lives turn upside-down.nominated for makeup
- DirectorMichael HoffmanStarsRobert Downey Jr.Sam NeillDavid ThewlisThe exiled royal doctor to King Charles II devotes himself to helping Londoners suffering from the plague, and in the process falls in love with an equally poor woman.Best Art Direction & Best Costume Design
- DirectorTony ScottStarsGene HackmanDenzel WashingtonMatt CravenOn a U.S. nuclear missile sub, a young First Officer stages a mutiny to prevent his trigger happy Captain from launching his missiles before confirming his orders to do so.nominated for editing, sound & sound editing
- DirectorDavid FincherStarsMorgan FreemanBrad PittKevin SpaceyTwo detectives, a rookie and a veteran, hunt a serial killer who uses the seven deadly sins as his motives.nominated for editing
- DirectorKevin ReynoldsStarsKevin CostnerJeanne TripplehornDennis HopperIn a future where the polar ice-caps have melted and Earth is almost entirely submerged, a mutated mariner fights starvation and outlaw "smokers," and reluctantly helps a woman and a young girl try to find dry land.nominated for sound
- DirectorMike GabrielEric GoldbergStarsMel GibsonLinda HuntChristian BaleAn English soldier and the daughter of an Algonquin chief share a romance when English colonists invade seventeenth century Virginia.Best Musical or Comedy score & Best Original Song.
- DirectorRob ReinerStarsMichael DouglasAnnette BeningMartin SheenA widowed U.S. President running for reelection and an environmental lobbyist fall in love. It's all above-board, but "politics is perception," and sparks fly anyway.nominated for musical or comedy score
- DirectorSydney PollackStarsHarrison FordJulia OrmondGreg KinnearAn ugly duckling having undergone a remarkable change, still harbors feelings for her crush: a carefree playboy, but not before his business-focused brother has something to say about it.nominated for musical or comedy score & original song
- DirectorDiane KeatonStarsAndie MacDowellJohn TurturroMichael RichardsWhen a youngster needs a break from the pressures of his parents' household, he moves in with his offbeat uncles and learns some invaluable life lessons.nominated for musical or comedy score
- DirectorJeremy LevenStarsJohnny DeppMarlon BrandoFaye DunawayA psychiatrist must cure a young patient who presents himself as Don Juan, the world's greatest lover.nominated for original song
- DirectorMarleen GorrisStarsWilleke van AmmelrooyJan DecleirVeerle van OverloopA Dutch matron establishes and, for several generations, oversees a close-knit, matriarchal community where feminism and liberalism thrive.best foreign language film
- DirectorBo WiderbergStarsJohan WiderbergMarika LagercrantzTomas von BrömssenStig, a 15-year-old student, is attracted to the beauty of Viola, his 37-year-old teacher, and she, drawn to his youth and innocence, feels that he is a God-sent relief for her drunken and miserable husband.nominated for best foreign language film
- DirectorRachid BoucharebStarsDaniel GuyantGilles ChitlaphoneJehan PagèsBased on a true story, after the US withdrawal and the fall of South Vietnam to the communist forces in 1975, many people are sent to reeducation camps. Several desperate boys in one of the camps begin planing their escape.nominated for best foreign language film
- DirectorFábio BarretoStarsGlória PiresPatricia PillarAlexandre PaternostTwo Italian-immigrant couples are part of a game that leads to treason and brings serious consequences to those who lose.nominated for best foreign language film
- DirectorGiuseppe TornatoreStarsSergio CastellittoTiziana LodatoFranco ScaldatiA photographer and the types of people he encounters.nominated for best foreign language film
- DirectorJon BlairStarsKenneth BranaghGlenn CloseIsa BaschwitzTells the story of the Frank family and paints a portrait of their brash and free-spirited daughter Anne, perhaps the world's most famous victim of the Holocaust.best documentary feature
- DirectorMichael EpsteinThomas LennonStarsRichard Ben CramerWilliam AllandThomas AndersonDocumentary about the battle between Orson Welles and William Randolph Hearst over Welles' Citizen Kane (1941). Features interviews with Welles' and Hearst's co-workers also as a relative complete bio of Hearst.nominated for best documentary feature
- DirectorAllan MillerStarsRoberta GuaspariArnold SteinhardtIsaac SternA dedicated music teacher in East Harlem instructs a gaggle of underprivileged children in the art of the violin. In the climax, they play Carnegie Hall with some of the world's foremost fiddlers.nominated for best documentary feature
- DirectorMichael TollinStarsHank AaronDusty BakerHarry BelafonteThe life and career of the great baseball champion, Hank Aaron.nominated for best documentary feature
- DirectorSteven AscherJeanne JordanStarsBob BlankenshipDean EiltsMarge HaroldTroublesome Creek is the acclaimed story of the Jordan family's gamble to save their Iowa farm. From fighting the Crooked Creek Gang in 1867 to fighting off the bank today. An Oscar-nominated cliffhanger about history, humor and the unsettling of America.nominated for best documentary feature
- DirectorChristine LahtiStarsDanny AielloChristine LahtiNancy TravisJoe Lieberman is attracted to Shaleen. They begin a professional relationship, which continues even after Joe develops a romantic interest in a woman named Kate, who is married.best live action short
- DirectorLuke CresswellSteve McNicholasStarsLuke CresswellTheseus GerardFiona WilkesA single street sweeper faces the odorous task of cleaning up the city market:a motley selection of other, more idiosyncratic street cleaners join him as his sweeping transforms into a dynamic celebration of rhythm. Loosely based upon the opening sequence of the UK percussion show, STOMP.nominated for best live action short
- DirectorGriffin DunneStarsKate CapshawChris ChavkinElliott GouldMother takes her teenage son to a party to make sure he will not be at home when father leaves the family for good.nominated for best live action short
- DirectorJeff GoldblumStarsChristine CavanaughJulie HarrisKenneth MoskowWhen Ginger meets her fiance's family, secrets, resentments and insecurities rise to the surface.nominated for best live action short
- DirectorDianne HoustonStarsVivian BonnellBill CobbsVondie Curtis-HallTuesday Morning Ride was based on the short story "A Summer Tragedy", by Arna Bontemps, a Harlem Renaissance writer. Set in the 1930s, the story depicts an old man and woman who feel they have nothing to live for, since their children do not visit. They are so depressed that they eventually take themselves over a cliff. Houston's portrayal of the characters is different. The elderly couple wake up on a Tuesday morning and finish preparing for their last few hours in their home before they have to move into an old people's home. The couple has everything to live for, but lack a society to do it in.nominated for best live action short
- DirectorNick ParkStarsPeter SallisAnne ReidJustin FletcherWallace's whirlwind romance with the owner of the local wool shop puts his head in a spin; Gromit is framed for sheep-rustling in a fiendish criminal plot.best animated short
- DirectorJohn DilworthStarsHoward HoffmanIn this pilot for Courage the Cowardly Dog (1999), Courage, the cowardly dog of an oblivious elderly couple that lives on a remote farm, must defend them from a malicious space chicken bent on conquest and its mutagenic eggs.nominated for best animated short
- DirectorChris LandrethStarsJeffrey HirschfieldGina ClaytonHannah KravitzAn animator finds himself trying to explain his (lack of) artistic vision to his creations, who just aren't impressed.nominated for best animated short
- DirectorAleksey KharitidiA young caterpillar yearns to fly like the butterflies and birds, but cannot launch himself high enough to do so - until a couple start playing badminton nearby.nominated for best animated short
- DirectorChris BaileyStarsWayne AllwineRussi TaylorKelsey GrammerIn an attempt to convince Minnie that he hasn't forgotten to buy her an anniversary present, Mickey Mouse ends up promising to take her to Hawaii. Funds being short, he applies for a job as lab assistant to the sinister Dr. Frankenollie, who happens to be searching for a donor to provide his monstrous creation with a brain...nominated for best animated short
- DirectorKary AntholisStarsGerda Weissmann KleinKurt KleinPeter ThomasHolocaust survivor Gerda Weissmann Klein recounts her six-year ordeal as a victim of Nazi cruelty, including the loss of her parents, brother, friends, home, possessions, and community.best documentary short
- DirectorNancy DineStarsJim DineAn exercise in artistic impermanence : Jim Dine covers the walls of a German museum with enormous charcoal images he has drawn.Six weeks later, wall painters whitewash his work away.nominated for best documentary short
- DirectorGreg MacGillivrayStarsSteven K. KatonaMeryl StreepJudith ConnorFilmmaker Greg MacGillivray examines the world's oceans and their importance to life on Earth.nominated for best documentary short
- DirectorTerry SandersStarsHerbert ZipperThe extraordinary story of Vienna born musician and conductor Herbert Zipper who survived Dachau, Buchenwald, and a Japanese concentration camp to become one of the great music educators of the world.nominated for best documentary short
- DirectorCharles GuggenheimStarsJulian BondDavid DukeLouis Farrakhan40,000 robed Ku Klux Klansmen marching down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., in 1925, voicing and representing their opposition to the participation of African-Americans, Catholics, and Jews in American lifenominated for best documentary short